The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation
Christoph Albert, Paula Bustos and Jacopo Ponticelli study the experience of Brazil to provide direct evidence on how capital and labor adjust to changes in climate.
Tag Archive: migration
Climate change and migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bruno Conte explores the current and future impact of climate change on rural economies, with important trade and immigration policy implications.
Video: Dynamic Modeling of Labor Market Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation (ERC Starting Grant)
Joan Llull discusses his ERC Starting Grant project in this short video.
Urban Networks: Connecting Markets, People and Ideas
Are American-style megacities or European-style urban networks the best development path for urbanizing countries like China? Can Europe’s relatively smaller cities compete with the world’s megacities by improving the transportation and communication links between them? Edward Glaeser, Giacomo Ponzetto, and Yimei Zou develop a theory of the flow of ideas within and between cities and discuss the factors that may favor consolidation into a dominant megalopolis over the balanced growth of a network of smaller cities.
